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Welcome to GermsWorld "Haven't
got time to paint article"
This article is designed to demonstrate
the painting technique I use when
I just need to get miniatures painted
up so I can get gaming. I recently
started playing the fantasy wargame
Celtos.
I went with the Fir-Bolg (Undead)
army and so ended up with a whole
bunch of skeletons and zombies, but
I really wanted to get the miniatures
on the table and into the game.
I hate playing with unpainted miniatures
and so below is the quick and simple
painting method I use when I have
no time or a lot of miniatures to
paint. Depending on the type of miniature
this process is the best method I
have come up with for quick tabletop
standard paint jobs.
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For this article I picked Mordred
the Dammed you can see the finished
result on the right.
If that's good enough for your tabletop
then read on!
Materials used
Miniatures:
Mordred
the Dammed from Brigade Models
Paints:
Coat
d' Arms
Flock:
Black
Cat Bases
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Step 1
First up clean the miniature of any
flash and mould lines. Yes I know this
is a quick paint guide but you really
do need to start with a clean figure.
Then undercoat the miniature with a
white base coat. I have already mounted
the miniature onto a base I made out
of Magic
Sculpt putty. |
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Step 2
Next we are going to paint the whole
model in its principle base colour.
Because most of this miniature is bare
skin I went with Coat
d' Arms colour 225 Khaki (little
hint, just because your painting a fantasy
miniature there is no need to stick
to fantasy colours!). Just because your
trying to be quick don't be tempted
to apply the paint too thinck and obscure
the detail. |
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Step 3
Now that the whole miniature is painted
in the base colour you then need to
apply a coating of ink. I used brown
ink for this miniature but if I was
going for a miniature that had blue
or green skin I would apply a blue
of green ink wash. Again the whole
miniature is covered.
Don't use the ink neat! Water it
down a bit. try one part ink to three
parts water to start.
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Step 4
We then go back to our base colour and
drybrush the whole miniature. What you
are doing is building up layers which
will give areas of shading and this
drybrush layer will highlight the model.
But because we are doing the whole miniature
each time it is very quick to get to
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Step 5
Now we need to slow down a bit and go
over the clothes, equipment and any
other areas you what to be different
to the skin colour. Simply apply a base
coat of what ever colour you need. You
can see here I have painted the boots
brown, the loin cloth red, braclets
gold, helmet black etc. |
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Step 6
As an extra step for this miniature
I have now dry brushed the metal parts
of the miniature with silver. |
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Step 7
Ok back to another brown ink wash. This
stage is similar to the "dip"
method of painting. Apply the ink over
the entire miniature, this blends every
colour together. I have applied this
second ink wash perhaps a bit to strong
here. But I do want the finished miniature
to have a dirty "just been dug
up" feel about it so it's not a
problem. You will have to experiment
with watering down the ink to get the
desired effect on your miniatures. |
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Step 8
And now the most bizzare stage. The
final highlight. Choose a light colour
within the colour spectrum of the
ink you used. For this miniature I
used Coat
d' Arms colour 228 Buff (it's
a very light brown). I put a tiny
amount on a brush and went over the
entire model. That's right the skin,
clothes and metal parts. Werid I know
but again it's quicker than highlighting
each colour individually.
Just remember to have hardly any paint
on the brush for this bit!
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Step 9
So there we have the finished miniature.
I've completed the base as you can see
which really brings the miniature to
life (well not in this case because
he's supposed to be dead!). |
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Step 10
Because this miniature is going to
be one of the leaders of my army I
spent a little bit more time on him.
I painted the eyes, some blood on
the sword and a bit of grass sticking
out of the base.
So there we have it. Because this
method sees you applying paint, ink
and drybrushing to the whole miniature
each time, it is remarkably quick
with the end result still being good
enough for the tabletop.
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| This method is also perfect
for doing batches of miniatures in one
sitting. Simply do step 1 to every miniature
then go back to the first and do step
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Here we have Mordred commanding a
unit of Skeletons. All of these miniatures
and the ones in my Celtos
galleries were painted using the
same method. |
